Dating Site eHarmony Wants To Help You Find A Job

Finding a job can be
painful; maybe eHarmony can help?Chris Hondros/Getty Images

Having already gotten down the whole matchmaking thing for
dating, eHarmony is now applying its skills to a new field:
careers.

According to
MarketWatch, eHarmony is getting ready to roll out a new
service called “Elevated Careers by eHarmony" this December.
The site will pair job seekers and employers to help users find
long-term positions that actually suit them.

The Bureau
of Labor Statistics claims that the typical American employee
only lasts 4.6 years at a job, and eHarmony wants to lengthen
that average. The company has been working on a solution for the
last three years, according to its founder and CEO Neil
Clark Warren.

A 2012 survey by Harris Interactive found that eHarmony had led
to 600,000 marriages since starting in 2000, with a divorce rate
of 3.8%. And now Warren wants to spread those kinds of positive
results into the career world.

“If we can do that for jobs, we
will save companies enormous amounts of money, and save the
person a lot of strain and stress, too,” Warren told
MarketWatch.

And not only that, but job
stress can often carry over into family life adding tension to a
relationship. Warren believes that by helping ensure success and
happiness in a user's work life, eHarmony can actually benefit a
user's romantic life as well.

eHarmony isn't the first to
notice a link between work and love. An app
called LinkedUp offers a matchmaking service similar to
Tinder, but instead of syncing with Facebook, it pulls from
LinkedIn. The idea is that information from LinkedIn can be more
useful when searching for love.

Flipping that equation around,
eHarmony is pulling from what it's learned about love and
applying that to careers.

We reached out to eHarmony for
more information on Elevated Careers and will update when we hear
back.